Search only x pages for content

[reg00000]

I have a lot of books and when I search for content it takes a long time. It would be nice if I could only search the first x (or x to y) pages for content. The purpose of this is to search the table of contents and save a lot of querying time.

[void]

Everything doesn't really know what a 'page' is.

There are some iFilters where Everything doesn't even know what a 'line' is.

I will consider an option to only read x bytes from files.
or, to stop at x iFilter chunks.

This will not always work as expected as you might have a 10MB image in the document before the TOC.


I wonder if there's a tool that would dump the TOC into another file so you can just search those..?

[EricB]

If we are talking epubs, e.g. Calibre can generate small sidecar opf files with metadata, which may also contains a short description (summary) of the book. Those might come in handier than scanning book contents (most of the electronic formats are zip-derived anyway).